Education Digest

CHAMBERSBURG - The Chambersburg Area School District has announced the open house schedule for all their schools in August and September. Benjamin Chambers open house days are August 16 and August 23. Kindergarten open house is from 5 to 6 p.m. on August 16 and grades 1 and 2 is from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. August 16. Open house for grades 3 to 5 is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. August 23.

Buchanan Elementary's open house dates are August 15 and August 16. Kindergarten and grade 1 open house is August 15 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Grades 2 to 5 are on August 16 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Falling Spring has several open house dates. There are two opportunities for new students to take a self-guided tour. These opportunities are both on August 4. One is from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the other is from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Open house for kindergarten and new students is on August 17 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Open house for grades 3 to 5 is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. August 23 and grades 1 and 2 on August 25 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Fayetteville's open house will occur on August 11, 15, and 16. Kindergarten and Life Skills on August 11 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. PDD and grades 1 and 2 will meet on August 15, with PDD from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and grades 1 and 2 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Grades 3 to 5 will meet August 16 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Grandview has two open house dates. Kindergarten and new students on August 16 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and August 24 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for grades 1 through 5.

Guilford Hills has are two dates for open house session. Kindergarten and new students can tour the building August 16 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Grades 1 and 2's session is August 24 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and grades 3 to 5 meet from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

Hamilton Heights's sessions are August 15 and 16. Kindergarten and PDD from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on August 15 and grades 1 to 5 on August 16 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Lurgan's open house dates are August 15 and August 23. Kindergarten and new students are from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on August 15 and grades 1 to 5 are from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on August 23.

Marion's lone open house session will be for grades K to 5 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on August 16.

New Franklin has two open house days left on August 16 and 17. Kindergarten and grade 1 on August 16 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and grades 2 to 5 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on August 17.

Scotland's open house sessions are all on August 17. Kindergarten is from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and grades 1 to 5 are from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

South Hamilton has two days of open house sessions on August 15 and August 16. Grades 3 to 5 on August 15 at 6 p.m. with kindergarten on August 16 at 5 p.m. and grades 1 and 2 at 6:30.

Stevens has an open house session for kindergarten August 15 at 3 p.m. and August 17 at 3:30 p.m. for grades 1 to 5.

CAMS North's sessions are August 15 and September 6. Self-guided tours are available from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on August 15 and Parent Night is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. on September 6.

CAMS South's sessions are August 15 and September 8. Self-guided tours are available from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on August 15 and Parent Night is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on September 8.

Chambersburg Area Senior High School will have one session on September 8 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The Career Magnet School will have two sessions in August. August 11 is new student orientation at 6 p.m. and August 30 is Open House and Tech Night for parents at 6 p.m.

Shippensburg professor receives award, will spend time in India

Dr. Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, an English professor at Shippensburg will be spending five months in India, courtesy of him earning the Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award. Dr. Zumkhawala-Cook will start his time in India in January 2017 and will be working on a project called “The New Readers of Global India: Popular Fiction and National Identity.”

During his time there, Dr. Zumkhawala-Cook will research how several novels reflect and shape the middle class and how those people see themselves imagined in books printed in English.